I love wordplay, so one of my favorite pastimes is doing cryptic crossword puzzles.
I visit this puzzle site, where the clues are difficult enough to tax my brain a bit, but not so hard that they are frustrating, every day.
https://lovattspuzzles.com/online-puzzles-fullscreen/cryptic-crossword-fullscreen.php
It’s so amusing, and amazing, to see the various types of clues the
constructors come up with, for example homonyms, Spoonerisms, and my personal favorite, anagrams. (I wish I had a book of anagrams on hand right now.)
And sometimes the answer is cleverly ensconced inside the clue.
I tried a cryptic crossword from that link that you posted, after reading this post yesterday. I’m a big fan of crossword puzzles and like to think that I am pretty good at them, but those cryptics seem TOO cryptic for me. 🙂
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Sometimes British expressions are used in these puzzles. It took me awhile to realize that.
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